Bookbindery guildlings! Andrew’s looking for help finding typos in the Wingfeather books. If you’ve noticed any errors, let us know where we can find them! And if you’d like to read through the books in search of typos, that would be great also. We’re looking for things like weird punctuation, extra spaces, misspellings, dropped words… stuff like that. Finding those minor mistakes is the main need. While you’re at it, if you can find the places where the epochs don’t line up, that would be great, too.

Thanks for your help! (I just misspelled “help” three times while typing that sentence… proofreaders are invaluable!)

Here are Google Sheets for each of the books, so that we can work together efficiently. We can probably collect epoch data here in the forum thread, but if you guildlings would prefer a Google doc for that also, we can set one up.

I wish I had the paper books! But alas, I only have the Wingfeather Tales.

Also we wouldn’t have to do this, but I think it would be easier to edit if we used a Google sheets document. It makes the tables easier to manage, since you can easily format, add, and remove rows. Just a suggestion.

Also as a point of interest, why are we searching out all the typos? 🙂

Nathan, good call on the Sheets idea. I was setting this up on my phone and didn’t see that option, but an easy way to add more rows would definitely be good. I will go do that.

Go ahead and add notes for Tales, if you’ve got that! I bet most of us will be working on the other books, so it’ll be helpful to have someone doing the short stories. And if you happen to have any of the others on Kindle, you can put Kindle locations instead of page numbers.

It says it all over. in the appendices of North! for instance, it has a picture of the whistle harp saying it belonged to Madia the Queen’s sister. Madia ony would have had a whistleharp anyways if she was song maiden. It says in many other places in the first two books that she was song maiden, but in books three and four it says she was high queen. In the appendices of the Monster in the Hollows, there is a family tree which shows Madia as the queen. Also, in book four, interspersed throughout the book are the pages translated from the Annieriad which clearly show that Madia was High Queen.

Actually, now I’m looking at the Lineage of Kings (6th edition) and am not certain whether it shows Madia as queen. I see two children of Lander and Illia (Finley) Wingfeather—Madia and Tallaran. Unless someone’s missing, she ought to have been the Throne Warden. There must have been someone missing. (Never mind, I figured out who’s missing: Their brother Olmer. See the first Annieriad excerpt in WatWK.)

That same Lineage has Edd and Yamsa (Griggins) Helmer as Podo’s parents (and thus the Iggyfeathers’ great-grandparents) rather than as their great-great-great-great-grandparents, which is what we see in On the Edge. And Podo’s “great-granny Olaraye” (North page 24) is missing entirely, although maybe it’s not necessary to go back that far in a non-royal line.

Ahoy! These aren’t precisely literary concerns per se, but I had a few geographic questions. First, Fort Dwid appears to have moved between the maps in books 1 and 4, and I was wondering which is correct. Also, there are a few names on Justin Gerard’s map of Aerwiar which are a bit tough to read in the book’s reproduction – namely, the castle in the north of Anniera and the five villages between Fithyhoop and the delta of the River Keekle. I was also wondering if the geographic locations of Ban Finnick and Ban Verda are known; I haven’t been able to locate them on the map.

One note concerning timelines: the prologue in Dark Sea states that the events of the books take place in the 4th Epoch, a statement which is confirmed by Warden, where (spoilers!) Kal’s coronation marks the start of the 5th epoch. However, in the appendix of Dark Sea, Podo’s permission forms are dated 3rd Epoch. I presume these are typos, but you never know; I wouldn’t put it past the Fangs to completely forget the turn of the epoch and leave the forms out-of-date.

This last question is purely out of personal interest, but does the name of the River Valinor, perchance, indicate a liking of Tolkien’s works on Andrew Peterson’s part? As a LOTR fan myself, I couldn’t resist asking.

There are definitely epoch errors in these books, and that’s something Andrew would particularly to have notes on so he can clear things up. One thing I found while researching Madia (above) was the assertion that she (Madia) was born in 4/435. However, the 6th ed. Lineage of Kings in the back of Monster in the Hollows is dated 4/12 and includes the Iggyfeathers. And the end of Warden tells us that the fifth epoch was ushered in at the end of the series, so 5/12 would probably be more accurate, but I’m not sure about the date of Madia’s birth. I’m going to try to come up with a unified timeline (or at least a list of all dates/epochs noted in the series). Maybe that should have a document of its own.

Haha! I had my suspicions! So it is being reprinted! I’m Soo happy and I loooove the cover art to death. I think it is perfect!

I haven’t seen any typos although I have heard one or two in the books. I’ll go look for them and send the chapter and what was happening when the typo happened. Then someone can look it up in the book and see if it is actually there or if it was just a mis-speak.

Hi,
I’m reading through the series again, and I realized that in the first two books that Madia Wingfeather is referred to as the Queen Sister and song maiden, but then in the rest of the books, she is the high queen. At the end of Dark Sea, after the kids find out they are the jewels, Leeli is given Madia’s wistleharp. Are there two different women in their family lineage named Madia? Can the queen also be a song maiden? The series indicates that Madia had two brothers, though, so this character’s role/place in the family is confusing to me. I was hoping to find some clarifying info about this.